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1 | unaffordable annulllment-How to? | Bible general Archive 1 | Jensen | 22611 | ||
Dear Tim...Your answer sounds like an answer "from a Catholic"....or Ex-Catholic :-) Please do not be a stumbling block. You may rationalize all you want but the Bible is clear. If you were not a Christian when you were married then it should not matter, what matters is if you were a Christian when married and went against the words of Jesus to receive a divorce. If free consent is lacking a marriage may be declared null and void. The remarriage of persons divorced from a living, lawful spouse controvenes the plan and the law of God as taught by Christ. There is no gray area here. It is very Biblical and should be taken very seriously. The Catholic Church did not put words in the mouth of Jesus. It is sad that many Protestant Churches do. Irreconcilabe differences indeed! None the less, Christians who divorce are not seperated from His church and should/must still live a Christian life. If you were married in the presence of God, in His church, you are obligated to keep His commands as surly as those in Exodus 20. If you have to choose between what some Christians say about divorce and what Jesus said Himself, then you put your faith in the wrong position. There simply is no choice. Like it or not. :-) God Bless....Jensen |
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2 | unaffordable annulllment-How to? | Bible general Archive 1 | Tim Sheasby | 22662 | ||
I agree that divorce is a sin. My first wife committed adultery and decided she wanted to live with another man, who himself was also married. I was left with no option in that situation but to divorce her for she certainly would have divorced me (she told me so). But, I still believe that divorce is a terrible thing. I never want to have to go through that again in my entire life. God hates divorce (as I mentioned in my previous posting) Mal 2:16. However, Christians do sin. And sometimes that sin is the sin of divorce. Do I like that? No. Would I try and work with people to prevent that? Most certainly. Yet, it happens. What then are we to do if a Christian has sinned and got a divorce? Matt 5:32 "but I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for the reason of unchastity, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery." We did an exegesis of this passage in our exegesis group and found an interesting thing. There is an alternative translation which goes like this "everyone who divorces his wife . . . causes her to be adulterated." She does not become GUILTY of adultery but the INNOCENT PARTY of adultery if you will. What do we do with the brother or sister who has sinned by divorcing for any reason other than adultery? We ask him to repent of that sin. Do we forbid him from re-marrying? I know preachers who would indeed do this but on what scriptural authority I do not know. One preacher I know asked a member to divorce his new wife and re-marry his old one because their divorce had been unscriptural. This flies in the face of biblical example. Deuteronomy 24:3-4 says that if a man has divorced his wife he CANNOT ever re-marry her "for that is an abomination before the LORD" Acknowledge the sin but trust in the grace of God to forgive. In Christian Love Tim |
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3 | unaffordable annulllment-How to? | Bible general Archive 1 | Morant61 | 22677 | ||
Greetings Tim! I am very sorry to hear about your wife! You made some excellent comments in this post! For more information about what you were saying, I would recommend the book, "What about Divorce" by Spiros Zodhiates, Th.D. He is a native Greek speaking pastor who does an exegetical study of all the revelant passages about divorce. His conclusion is that the divorce laws were given in Scripture to protect inocent women, who had no recourse under societal laws. The point wasn't to punish them. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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